"Trump furious at Israel for destroying Iran oil fields as crude surges and planned summit collapses"--Daily Mail. The article reports:
Donald Trump is furious after Israel targeted Iran's oil depots in a blitz that shocked the White House amid soaring oil prices.
A planned summit between the US and Israel was scrapped on Monday in the first open disagreement between the allies since the war broke out.
Thirty Iranian fuel depots were obliterated over the weekend with apocalyptic images showing fires leaping into the sky, huge columns of smoke, and black oily rain falling from the sky.
White House officials were stunned by the scale of Israel's bombardment and concerned that images of burning oil would anger Americans facing increased gas prices - up to $3.4 per gallon on average compared to $2.9 before the war started.
'The president doesn't like the attack. He wants to save the oil. He doesn't want to burn it. And it reminds people of higher gas prices,' a Trump adviser said to Axios.
An Israeli official said the message from the US was stark: 'What the f***'.
Israel has always been a frenemy. It's just becoming too obvious to ignore.
ReplyDeleteI feel sad for them because their machinations to weaken the West means that when Gog leads his armies against Jerusalem, there won’t be any Western nations capable of coming to their rescue.
DeleteLast president to push back was JFK.
ReplyDeleteHe stood in the way of their nuclear ambitions.
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